The General Strike in York, 1926

Leaflet produced by the University of York's Borthwick Institute detailing the 1926 General Strike and its how it played out in the City of York.

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Barry Burke's account of the UK general strike of 1926 in the East London borough of Hackney.

Battleships on the Mersey, riots in Wirral, and almost everyone refusing to work! Adam Ford takes a…

Online archive of The British Worker, the daily newspaper published by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) during the 10 day general strike of 1926.

Written in the early 1940s, British syndicalist Tom Brown's article The Social General Strike - Why…

Royal Mail workers walked out of the firm's York depot on Friday 15 December in support of a van…

Orwell's examinations of the conditions for the working class in the north of England prior to World War Two and how he became a socialist.